Demon Possession
Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:44:40 -0600 (00917934280, 4.1.19990201174329.00a2a820@pop.truman.edu)
At 10:03 PM 2/1/99 +0000, Joseph Crea wrote:
>Hello, Achilles!
>
>At 03:27 PM 2/1/99 -0500, Achilles wrote:
>>On 1 Feb 99, at 19:27, Matthew Bell wrote:
>>> > Ed
>>> >
>>> > I said that it's "typical," not universal, for Christians to exorcise
>other
>>> > Christians. That's because Christians tend to live among other
>Christians.
>>> >
>>> > Duh.
>>>
>>> Matthew Bell
>>> And I say your statement is blatantly false, especially considering that
>many
>>> in Christianity take the same 'opinion' of Christian demon possession as
>I do,
>>> i.e it is not possible. There is nothing typical about it except in
your own
>>> mind.
>>
>>Achilles
>>Are you seriously proposing that ones 'opinion' that a demon cannot possess
>you
>>is sufficient to make it so?
>
>
>CREA
> Of course Matt probably thinks that opinion is sufficient in cases like
>this. I also suspect that Matt is unfamiliar with Cotton Mather's work
>__The Wonders of the Invisible World__, in which that learned divine
>expounds at length on the Devil's assault (often by possession) on the pious
>Christians of New England.
>
> BTW, just this morning I ran across an item that had me ROFL. Seems some
>New-Age type is SERIOUSLY questioning the germ theory of disease. He is
>reported [briefly] as arguing that (1) infection does not INEVITABLY follow
>introduction of the alleged pathogens, thus casting into doubt any attempts
>to establish a causal etiology for a viable germ based theory; and (2)
>NOWHERE in ANY of the current crop of medical literature dealing with
>disease or diagnosis, is there any demonstrations, proofs or experimental
>evidence that would lead to the conclusion that that demon possession does
>NOT cause disease. ;-)
>
Ed
I'd forgotten dear ol' Cotten....
You know he was almost accused of witchcraft himself because he wanted to
introduce inoculation to his community.